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Look on the bright side of life with Spamalot at the Edinburgh Playhouse this March

Following the Pythons’ incredible 10
night sell-out run at London’s O2 Arena, Monty Python’s Spamalot gallops
back out on tour, to bring the West End production to Edinburgh this month.

Having first played King Arthur for a
successful West End run last summer, comedian Joe Pasquale is
pleased as punch to be back in the role (he would be pleased as Holy Grail
Ale, but it’s not really got the same ring to it). He stars alongside Todd
Carty, who starred as Patsy from the very start of this production both on
tour and in the West End run, and Sarah Earnshaw as The Lady
of The Lake.

Lovingly ripped off from the classic
film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a
kind-of new musical with a book by Eric Idle and an entirely new score for the
new production, (well, almost) created by Eric Idle and John Du Prez.

Joe Pasquale originally won the part of
King Arthur through a truly unique casting process as Bonnie Langford and Joe
had both appeared in ITV1’s Dancing on Ice and starred together in Pirates of
Penzance, so she contacted him on Twitter when she was playing The Lady of The
Lake, invited him to see her in the show and suggested to the producers that
he’d be a great King Arthur (she was proved right!). Joe’s
performance has been described as “being Joe Pasquale at his very best”,having a “loveable quality” with his “comic touches
and ad-libs work perfectly in the fast-paced dialogue”.

Spamalottells the legendary tale of King
Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy (or possibly a
brace) of beautiful show girls, witch burnings (cancelled due
to health and safety) not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people.
The show features fantastic tunes more magical than a Camelot convention,
including He Is Not Dead Yet,Knights of the Round Table, Find
Your Grail and of course the Nation’s Favourite Comedy Song (Reader’s
Digest Poll 2010 - before it went bust), Always Look On The
Bright Side Of Life.